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Our Projects

Since 2001, with limited staff, Second Look has been working on projects meant to be supportive of professionals who wish to learn more and/or need tools with which to better teach about fluoridation public policy, fluoride toxicity, fluoride poisoning in individuals, and other environmental health issues. Projects include:

• Planning expanded services for individuals ill with fluoride poisoning. A pilot project is currently underway.
• Our first non-fluoride related program (EMF Toxicity Science) about another controversial public policy issue, concerning the science and politics of electromagnetic radiation (see: EMFTS WebCenter). As with our fluoride information, we present the best science available on this issue in a fair and objective way;
• Our unique program, the Fluoride Toxicity Research Collaborative, designed to look for ways to more easily detect, diagnose, confirm, and ultimately treat cases of fluoride poisoning;
• Responding to concerns of fluoride poisoned individuals who contact us; looking forward to establishing a formal “hotline” service for these individuals;
• FTRC is also a “Collaborative”, amassing physicians, dentists, scientists, and other professionals who wish to learn more about fluoride poisoning in individuals. Our FTRC Members' Exchange is the e-mail discussion group for professional Collaborative members who wish to exchange high-level medical and scientific information, both theoretical and practical, about fluoride illness;
• Our high-quality website, www.SLweb.org, providing unique Bibliographies in each of our 3 websites, containing peer-reviewed scientific literature on the health effects of fluorides and EMFs;
• Sponsoring and co-sponsoring seminars on the science of fluorides and fluoridation;
• Creating and disseminating the Statement of Concern on Fluoridation, amassing the signatures of many professional individuals as well as organizations who are concerned enough to support a call for a Congressional investigation into the public policy of fluoridation;
• Building alliances with environmental, environmental health, health, and other types of coalitions,organizations and individuals, with which to share related information;
• Helping scientists and other important individuals attend important meetings by subsidizing their transportation costs;
• A creative PowerPoint presentation (and ultimate training program) for outreach to health professionals dealing with health effects of fluoride;
• Through SLweb.org, making contacts that otherwise would have been not possible; one of these contacts led to the establishment of an online support group for fluoride poisoned people, the only one of its kind in existence;
• Elevating the legitimacy of the fluoridation issue in its adherence to a scientific, rather than political, identity; also, some real success in gaining acceptance by environmental and environmental health professionals, of fluoride contamination as another environmental health issue (previously not considered seriously or at all).